If they laugh at you for being true to yourself, laugh back at them for not knowing how great it feels to be in love with one's positive self.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

Appearance rules the world.

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.